Speaker 1: We're talking about the blockbuster trade that sent Luka Danci
Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Lakers and Anthony Davis to the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: The move is the first time two all NBA players
Speaker 1: have been traded for each other during the season. So
Speaker 1: the Lakers now have an international superstar to secure their future.
Speaker 1: What does it mean for the four time champion and
Speaker 1: resident international superstar that is Lebron James. It's a huge question.
Speaker 1: By the way, Max Christie was a part of this
Speaker 1: deal as well, he ends up going with Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Max Christy was your three and D kind of player.
Speaker 1: You hit the three. He could defend the wing, one
Speaker 1: of the lakers better defenders. I might add that also
Speaker 1: helps improve Dallas defense as well. We can't forget this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Can't forget this. That's got that too.
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two. Gotta say something I said
Speaker 1: on the air this morning, I'll say it again. If
Speaker 1: you're Lebron James and you're about winning still, you wave
Speaker 1: your no trade claws, try to get to the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna happen. I know it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But if Lebron James was with Jaylen Brunson
Speaker 1: and Bridges and Carl Anthony tthing man Son and think
Speaker 1: about Son, and think about now the Knicks. This is
Speaker 1: where I think they messed up because they gave away
Speaker 1: five first round picks for Michel Bridges. They gave away
Speaker 1: a couple of first round picks for the Anthony called
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. All you got is a bunch of second
Speaker 1: round picks to give away, and you could swap a
Speaker 1: couple of first round picks. That's the position they put
Speaker 1: themselves in. I wish they had had more assets to
Speaker 1: go out there and try to coax Lebron James into
Speaker 1: waving his no trade clause the Golden State Warriors, even
Speaker 1: though their chances seemed slim. Just imagine Lebron James with
Speaker 1: Draymond Green with a couple of those other assets, and
Speaker 1: the great Steph Curry, who's had you got to keep,
Speaker 1: who forces you to keep your head on a swivel
Speaker 1: because you got to see where he's at and you
Speaker 1: need oxygen and oxygen tank whenever you finish, because this
Speaker 1: brother is just ridiculous. How about that guy? How about
Speaker 1: that guy? I'm just wondering, because Lebron with Steph Curry
Speaker 1: would be something to behold and hell, they could possibly
Speaker 1: both go out together because you see, if you go
Speaker 1: to the state, you can't just waste away the years
Speaker 1: of Steph Curry. This is a once in a generation player.
Speaker 1: You utilize him to the max, it ain't gonna always
Speaker 1: be there. But getting back to Lebron James, here's the point.
Speaker 1: Lebron James has look sensational, no doubt about it. At
Speaker 1: age forty, we ain't never seen anything like that. Y'all
Speaker 1: want me to concede to him as being the goat, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. In terms of longevity, he is the
Speaker 1: goat when it comes to longevity. Lebron James at his
Speaker 1: best was not MJ at his best. That's my definition
Speaker 1: of the goat. But if you want to sit up
Speaker 1: there and look at we've never seen somebody this age,
Speaker 1: this many years in the NBA twenty two years. Next
Speaker 1: year is gonna be his twenty third year, started his career,
Speaker 1: ware number twenty three and all of this other stuff. Fine,
Speaker 1: I would say to you he's the goat in that category.
Speaker 1: Nobody has ever been this great this long. My definition
Speaker 1: of the goat, however, is you at your best against
Speaker 1: MJ at his best. Who is greater its MJ all day,
Speaker 1: every day, every day. That's how I feel about it. Now,
Speaker 1: back to Lebron and the Lakers. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Lukadanci can play together. That's another reason
Speaker 1: why I think he should be considering waving his no
Speaker 1: trade clothes. He's not gonna do it. From everything that
Speaker 1: I'm told, he's very, very comfortable in Los Angeles intentsl town.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to uproot himself as family or anything
Speaker 1: like that. You know. My attitude is you can go
Speaker 1: to go to State and commute back to LA. But
Speaker 1: him and Luca are ball hogs. Him and Luca are
Speaker 1: ball dominant. And yes, Lebron Jays might not have a
Speaker 1: problem deferring and being deferential to Luca to some degree,
Speaker 1: But can we really really expect that? Can we really
Speaker 1: expect that? Because when you're a basketball savant, you see
Speaker 1: things others don't see, even if it's another great savant,
Speaker 1: and as a result, it could create conflict. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then you got to look at the assets. Right now,
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes is the center that the Lakers are gonna
Speaker 1: have to start. Yep, you kept Austin Reeves, Fine, Yep
Speaker 1: you kept Roria Chamorra. Sure fine, But when you talk
Speaker 1: about Luca and Lebron, you're a relatively undersized team, even
Speaker 1: though both of them can post dudes up smaller guards
Speaker 1: and forwards, no doubt about that. But how you gonna defend?
Speaker 1: You think Lebron's running back on defense, Think Luca's running
Speaker 1: back on defense? Who are your defenders? You don't have
Speaker 1: any of you the Los Angeles Lakers. It ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be Austin Reeves, who teams isolate and pick on. So
Speaker 1: who is it gonna be? So, since you can't stop anybody,
Speaker 1: chances are you ain't gonna win. And if you know
Speaker 1: that heading into the fray, if you're Lebron James approaching
Speaker 1: your last year or so in the league, why stick around?
Speaker 1: But he's gonna stick around, or report say he's gonna
Speaker 1: stick around. So it's gonna be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: he adjusts to Luca and whether or not they can
Speaker 1: coexist offensively. I think they'll figure it out. Great players
Speaker 1: figure out how to play with one another. The lake,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not the late mister Larry Brown, He's still
Speaker 1: alive and kick it. Former coach In Phillips says, seventy
Speaker 1: six is Indiana Pacers used to coach denver In and
Speaker 1: Aba Hall of Fame coach coach the Pistons to a
Speaker 1: championship two thousand and four, lost to the finals to
Speaker 1: the Spurs of two thousand and five. That Larry Brown text
Speaker 1: me this morning, great players figure out a way to
Speaker 1: play with one another. That is totally true, and that
Speaker 1: man has forgot more basketball than most of us know.
Speaker 1: I just believe it's not just about what Lebron and
Speaker 1: Luca can do, It's about who they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do it against. Have you seen Oklahoma City? Do you
Speaker 1: see how Dallas has as symboled itself? Have you watched
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets and how they've been balling? And what
Speaker 1: email you Doka's got those brothers doing. Have you seen
Speaker 1: a men Thompson? Have you seen Green Chagoon? Have you
Speaker 1: seen the Houston Rockets? They're coming Memphis is no joke either.
Speaker 1: Everywhere we turn, what are we seeing? I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at this and I'm saying, yo. When Nico Harrison says
Speaker 1: our window is now what He's saying his team's only
Speaker 1: gonna get better and better and better over the years.
Speaker 1: What we gonna do about it, or we gonna get
Speaker 1: the Chip or nine? We can't worry about six seven
Speaker 1: years down the line, that Luca could have been the
Speaker 1: face of the franchise, having people walk through the turnstiles,
Speaker 1: averaging twenty eight at night and being box office. He
Speaker 1: trying to win a championship and he didn't believe he
Speaker 1: could do it with Luca. A lot of it ooh,
Speaker 1: some of it shaky. I get it, I understand in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's eyes. But there is no denying
Speaker 1: that the Mavericks are better in terms of their talent
Speaker 1: and how they're assembled for a championship. We got to
Speaker 1: find out. This deal is an absolute loss that will
Speaker 1: scar Nico Harrison forever if he doesn't win a championship.
Speaker 1: With Anthony Davis on the squad, they gotta win a
Speaker 1: chip and God helped them. If some kind of miracle
Speaker 1: happens and Luca Dancik and Lebron James managed to win
Speaker 1: a title, but before Anthony Davis and the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: pull it off, Oh my god, Oh my god. Nico
Speaker 1: Habson and Jason kiddill never live it down. Can't happen.
Speaker 1: They gotta win, and they gotta make sure that they're
Speaker 1: considerably better than the Lakers. And they got to hope
Speaker 1: that Luka Doncik doesn't get this chip on the shoulders
Speaker 1: similar to the chip that his father expressed he clearly
Speaker 1: has on his shoulders on behalf of his son. They
Speaker 1: better hope that Luka Doncic doesn't go to La and
Speaker 1: just reeks such havoc. You're like, who the hell is
Speaker 1: this dude? All of a sudden he walking around with
Speaker 1: a six pack he got he consulted with Gary Brecker,
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Human and that brand and getting himself a
Speaker 1: six pack and being in shape and got some stammin
Speaker 1: up and don't look like you've been eating a bunch
Speaker 1: of donuts. God help anybody if Lucas starts looking like
Speaker 1: that and playing like a dude who's possessed and in shape.
Speaker 1: Dallas got to hope for all of these things. But
Speaker 1: if you're Lebron James, where do you go from here?
Speaker 1: The Lakers reportedly did not consult Lebron James. He found out,
Speaker 1: like everybody else, he had no clue. And if they
Speaker 1: didn't consult him, and they didn't consult Rich Paul for
Speaker 1: clutch sports. Usually agents hear about these things. Usually they
Speaker 1: know about these things. They didn't consult Bill Duffy, the
Speaker 1: Great Bill Duffy about Lukadonciic either. But if they didn't
Speaker 1: do all of that, what does it say, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I asked the rhetorical question, or first take this one
Speaker 1: and I'll ask it to you all right now, if
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant were alive, God Rest his soul, and he
Speaker 1: was a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, and the
Speaker 1: Lakers are doing the deal like this, do you really
Speaker 1: think that Genie Buss and Rober Lincoln would not have
Speaker 1: told Kobe Bryant beforehand? Do you think they would have
Speaker 1: kept him in the dark, keeping Lebron James in the dog.
Speaker 1: I understand rober Lincoln, his relationship Whitney co Harrison and
Speaker 1: vice versa is what enabled it to be kept a secret.
Speaker 1: I get that part. But they wouldn't have kept that
Speaker 1: from Kobe no way in hell. And the fact that
Speaker 1: they kept it from Lebron James, what does that say
Speaker 1: about what they think about Lebron James and how they
Speaker 1: feel about them. I don't know the answer to those questions.
Speaker 1: I just think they legitimate questions, fair or unfair. Clutch
Speaker 1: Sports had the reputation of being seen as somebody, as
Speaker 1: an entity that was running the Lakers organization, and Genie
Speaker 1: Boss and Robert Lake and them were very salty about
Speaker 1: that imagery being projected in their direction. Is this why
Speaker 1: Rich Paul didn't know? Rich Paul also represents Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Rich Paul, by the way, congratua him. He represents Daron
Speaker 1: Fox well as well, But he represents Anthony Davis represents
Speaker 1: Lebron James, So he didn't know. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Could it mean that the Lakers want to send a message.
Speaker 1: Genie Bust was in the message Todd all of this shit.
Speaker 1: We run this franchise and we'll do what we want
Speaker 1: to do, because no matter what way you slice it.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that's how they feel. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that's how it comes across. That's what people think. What
Speaker 1: I would say to you is this, In the end,
Speaker 1: this is clearly Luca Doncik's franchise. Yes, Bron, he's on
Speaker 1: the team. That's what Lebron James wanted. He's dressed in
Speaker 1: the Lakers' uniform, he's traveling, he was there at the
Speaker 1: garden the other night, scorda basket against the Knicks Quada
Speaker 1: basket before that. You know, get someone else, We get
Speaker 1: all of that. Lebron James what he usually wants, he
Speaker 1: usually gets for. We know, we might find out someday
Speaker 1: that Lebron was behind all of this. He wanted Luca.
Speaker 1: He just didn't want anybody to know he didn't. He
Speaker 1: wanted Lucas so badly because Anthony Davis is a boy
Speaker 1: I don't know, don't care. What I'm telling you is this,
Speaker 1: This is clearly Luca's team. Lebron didn't mind being defferential
Speaker 1: to Anthony Davis, but I tell you it's two different animals.
Speaker 1: He didn't mind being deferential to Anthony Davis because even
Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis is the number one option on a
Speaker 1: basketball court, it was clearly Lebron's squad. Anthony Davis didn't
Speaker 1: have the cachet and the popularity that Lebron James had
Speaker 1: or still has, but Luca does. And now Luca being
Speaker 1: in La with him clearly is the face of the franchise.
Speaker 1: Clearly the dude who will be marketed clearly the dude
Speaker 1: that the Lakers are looking to hang their hat on
Speaker 1: for the next decade. They basically say, Yo, man, you
Speaker 1: want to wave to trade, no trade, close, go waive it.
Speaker 1: You want to stay, stay, do what you want. This
Speaker 1: is his franchise. How is Lebron going to feel about that?
Speaker 1: That's the question. That's what we gotta deal with. Gonna
Speaker 1: react to all of that. He ain't the story no more, y'all.
Speaker 1: Luca Is I'm just saying, just saying, h